As release is drawing near, any of you considering
cancelling your preorders?

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We still don't know how the game devs are going to divide their attention between consoles. Most will either go multiplat or release on PS4 only (or PS4+PC), and a rare few will actively seek to release on the X1 only (most probably being paid by microsoft to do so). Spending $500 on a console and finding there are barely any games you want to play would be a massive waste/hassle.

Similarly, it's possible there are still hardware faults with the X1s that will not have been fixed by launch. And don't say microsoft wouldn't do that, because they did before, and development was rushed this time, while repeatedly trying to boost the performance to match the PS4.

The smart move would be to cancel the preorder and buy it again later, unless there are some launch games you just need to play as soon as you can. It's even possible that soon after launch, a kinect-free bundle will be released, or that there'll be thousands of nearly-unused X1s on ebay for half the price.

Surely wait-and-see is the best option?

"I think all you gotta do is find that little black kid, and doesn't that start the whole backdoor option?" -WHiTE_LickR

We still don't know how the game devs are going to divide their attention between consoles. Most will either go multiplat or release on PS4 only (or PS4+PC), and a rare few will actively seek to release on the X1 only (most probably being paid by microsoft to do so). Spending $500 on a console and finding there are barely any games you want to play would be a massive waste/hassle.

Similarly, it's possible there are still hardware faults with the X1s that will not have been fixed by launch. And don't say microsoft wouldn't do that, because they did before, and development was rushed this time, while repeatedly trying to boost the performance to match the PS4.

The smart move would be to cancel the preorder and buy it again later, unless there are some launch games you just need to play as soon as you can. It's even possible that soon after launch, a kinect-free bundle will be released, or that there'll be thousands of nearly-unused X1s on ebay for half the price.